Author Archives: tomierna

I Have a Lot of Junk

This is one of those pointless blog posts where you want to keep up the momentum, but you have nothing to write about.

And, really, it’s all about the momentum, isn’t it? Gaining inertia is hard, and I really do have a lot of junk. …

Tea, Wondrous Tea

Tea has an extremely long history, even in my own life. I remember vividly my maternal grandfather making the rich Ceylon teas he’d bring back from his travels. I never drank them then – they seemed an adult beverage to me. Yet I was fascinated by the process, the tradition, the smells.

No-calorie Sweetening

I’m lazy. I don’t exercise, but I should. I’m getting a tire ’round my middle, and I want it to go away.

Many have said that cutting your intake of high-fructose corn syrup will make you shed the pounds pretty quickly. I believe this to be true.

Many Moons Ago

Back when Mac OS X was young, and Apple hadn’t yet settled on their toolchain, wget was included as a CLI tool for getting files from URLs. When 10.1 came around, wget disappeared in favor of cURL . I have no idea if there were internal political reasons at Apple …

The Ierna Family

The Ierna family is a large and extended one. We originally hailed from Sicily. I’m not much of a genealogist, but I gather that my paternal great grandparents were straight off the boat. Their listings can be found on the Ellis Island site. You can find pictures of the family …

Site fixed, Face Broke.

Site Fixed I spent a few hours Monday night to Tuesday morning to finally fix the layout of the site. Many moons ago, I thought I had it fixed , but it turns out that I didn’t have the columns sticking to the bottom of the screen still. After rigorous …

Four Wheelin…

Cabo San Lucas, being a tourist destination, has a great many activities available. At Jerry’s spur-of-the-moment suggestion, Andrew booked us on an all-terrain-vehicle tour…

Gone Fishin’…

While in Cabo, my business partners and I went game fishing. A short water-taxi ride brought us to a 28-foot fishing boat which ferried us up and down the Cabo coast, about a mile out…